PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Habituation, Melatonin, Tachycardia
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Consciousness = encompasses our ever-changing awareness of thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, events, and actions. Hard question: first person data - subjective experience. Easy question: third person data - behavioral and brain processes. Blindsight = the ability to detect and identify visual stimuli by forced-choice guessing or to demonstrate appropriate action to visual stimuli when the visual stimuli are presented in blind portions of the visual field are not consciously perceived. The primary visual cortex, shown through helen the monkey experiment. Binocular rivalry = presenting an image to one eye and noise" to the other, the image won"t be able to be processed by the brain. Left hemisphere is language dominant, controls speech. So if shown something to right eye, you can only say it, not draw it. So if shown something to left eye, you can only draw it, not say it. An object seen in the left visual field will be processed in the right hemisphere and vice versa.
